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Realistically, membership of the EU is the more important of the two. Certainly in the longer run. Although being honest, I can’t see Ukraine fully joining the EU for bare minimum 15-20 years even if the war ended with Russian retreat tomorrow.

Reaching the Erdogan point on the authoritarian leader scale. All this is escalating far faster than a pessimist like me believed would happen. He could be full dictator by the end of the summer at this rate.

Oh, I realise that. Just was commenting that for overseas (as in non-American) Transformers fans, the appeal is going to be marginal. Usually the collaborative figures are related to franchises with a higher level of international recognition. However, given the NFL figures seem to share...

I think it's rather... Brave of Hasbro to release these products, given that there isn't going to be much interest in them outside of the United States? Not that there aren't followers of American football outside of the sport's homeland, but I doubt there's enormous numbers of them who also...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y42zzwylvo Florida-style toilet bans are here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crldey0z00ro Starmer again demonstrating how he’s the most socially conservative British prime minister since Thatcher. Horrified how the Labour Party has gone from being...

I genuinely believed that it’d take six months to several years for the Trump admin to get this nakedly authoritarian, and I consider myself a pessimist.

You’ll need a Second Republic. But the Democrats are so utterly inept as an opposition, I doubt they collectively have the ability to handle a reconstruction if they regain power nationally.

Wouldn’t be surprised. He’s more rightwing in practice than the last Tory prime minister, is a social conservative, doesn’t want rapprochement with Europe…

In the UK, retailers by law had to charge for plastic bags from 2015 onwards. It apparently drastically reduced consumption of plastic bags, and many of the major retailers no longer even sell single-use bags.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/trans-women-nhs-supreme-court-ruling-b2734976.html One day after the verdict, and trans rights to healthcare are already under institutional attack.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t More crap news from Terf island, the UK Supreme Court has ruled that trans women aren’t women and therefore don’t have the same legal protections.

Just a thought, but anti-Americanism will be a factor in many countries going forwards. As in American brands like Transformers could actively lose a lot of support overseas. This tariff crisis will spike prices in the rest of the world, and people in not-America will be angry at the nation...

https://boingboing.net/2025/04/09/trumps-new-loyalty-test-golden-trump-bust-lapel-pins.html Not reminiscent of a dictatorship, no…

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Yeah, why don’t we buy your cars? Might be because they’re far too big for our roads and our dwellings, and are ludicrously fuel inefficient. (Petrol, as in gasoline, is as of this posting, is averaging 136 pence per litre, as in US$1.74 per litre. FWIW.) (edit: that’s US$6.59/gallon.)

Inevitable, really. But then again, and I don't want to make this too dark, we should probably be worrying more about core expenses like food and fuel rather than affording the newest Nintendo console.

Yes. It’s the same sort of rhetoric we had here in the UK about a catastrophic thing that happened to my country. “We’ll start manufacturing things here for a change, it’ll be great!” – nine years on (urgh), all it lead to was business closures and higher prices.

hug me, those tariffs. Good thing I brought forward purchasing a new computer to last week. :/ I think the republic is dead if there isn’t actual full major backlash to this. This isn’t normal. This is economic mismanagement by a lunatic with geriatric dementia. What Liz Truss did to the...

This is going to end mainline Transformers releases. A Deluxe is going to cost, what, $40, $45 over in the States? And consider the target audience (namely kids), buying action figures aren’t going to be a priority for parents when just getting basics like food in regularly will destroy the...